Francesco Cingolani

Francesco Cingolani is the curator and administrator of complexitys.com.
He collaborates with Hugh Dutton Associates since 2005.
Francesco is also teacher of parametric design at Marne La Vallée, in Paris.

We replicate in December the advanced computational design workshop DESIGN by DATA organised by Hugh Dutton Associés with Francesco Cingolani and in partnership with La Gâité Lyrique, a center dedicated to digital cultures in Paris. In the first edition of the workshop, in July, we welcomed participants from France, Australia, UK and Canada. We share in this post some of the outputs produced during the workshop and some videos of the design process of the CLIMATE RIBBON™, used in the workshop as the main case study.

This morning when I arrived at HDA I found a lot of interesting books on my table selected by Sébastien Perrault, Mitsu Edwards and other collaborators of the team. At the office these books are used as reference and source of inspiration. They might be helpful to some of our readers so here is a quick presentation with a full online versions of 2 of them.

You know that at HDA we like to share because we believe in sharing as a way to learn and design. After two month of work we are happy to officially announce DESIGN by DATA workshop, organized in partnership with IMMAGINOTECA studio and La Gâité Lyrique.

We are releasing today our first official press-kit of the CLIMATE RIBBON™, an architectural feature designed by Hugh Dutton Associates for Swire Properties and architects Arquitectonica’s new Brickell City Centre development in Miami. The design of the CLIMATE RIBBON is a response to the climate performance parameters and the architectural form is therefore an expression of them.

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” ― Albert Einstein.

It’s hard for me to describe and define myself and my activity, especially in the last years. I would consider myself as a modern explorer, a person who really likes to imagine future possibilities (from science to philosophy, from art to biology) and to connect the acquired dots on a map (resources, people, skills, technologies, tools) to design new potential trajectories.

Jan Henrik Hansen is a Zurich-based architect/artist/designer who turns (time-based) music into (space-based) physical sculptures and architectural structures. Jan is an architect with background in music and he has been teaching and researching with well-known professors Gramazio & Kohler.